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Site name | Badbury Earthwork, Shapwick |
Site number | 1342 |
Burial codes | 2001 2005 2021 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2045 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2104 2111 2128 2143 2152 2181 |
8/700bc-100bc | A defensive earthwork with a palisade trench dating from the latter part of the Bronze Age, succeeded in Late Iron Age B times by a ditch and bank, following a similar alignment but 6m further to the north. Levelling of the later bank produced human bones. |
Remains/Period | Y2 |
County | Dorset |
Region | S |
National grid square | ST |
X coordinate | 956 |
Y coordinate | 30 |
Bibliographic source | Vatcher 1966 |
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Last updated: Tues Aug 10 2004